The Great Escape
by Angus Deaton · first published 2013
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…the vast majority of global health and development funding. I think there is a fair amount of evidence that suggests development funding can have as much disastrous consequence as good. In his book The Great Escape[1], Angus Deaton (Nobel Prize economist) describes how non-interventionist economic development seems to have been the main driver of better outcomes across the world, and not the flush pockets of westerners,…
on “Warren Buffett’s Best Investment” ↗> Is a kid worth less than a working parent? This is an interesting question Angus Deaton talks about in "The Great Escape" So a baby knows hardly any one but has their life ahead of them. Where as a old person has less years but their death effects more people. Once you get into a working ability, it depends on their…
on “Huawei Boss Crashes; News Stories Disappear” ↗It was quite surprising for me to read (in Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape - Nobel laureate) that most of the advances on living longer that we have achieved are basically focused on not dying young (baby, infant, adolescent); but that the overall limit has been fixed in its…
on “How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists” ↗…political consequences. Authors from George Packer to Tyler Cowen are stirring impassioned debate about the perceived breakdown of the American social compact. The new book from economist Angus Deaton, The Great Escape (see DemLab's excerpt here), includes a memorable quote from the lawyer Louis Brandeis: "If democracy becomes plutocracy, those who are not rich are effectively disenfranchised." Can we stop the trend?…
on “Tycoon Warning” ↗